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Vesture

Vesture meaning

A covering of, or like, clothing.

Example sentences (3)

He named Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines as among the other islands who have benefitted from the humanitarian vesture offered by the Government of Venezuela.

In latter years, this vesture was more symbolic than practical, and since the mid-twentieth century it has fallen out of favour.

The history behind the vesture is that it symbolically represents the mobility of bishops and archdeacons, who at one time would ride horses to visit various parts of a diocese or archdeaconry.